The Sky Is Falling! Yet Another Variant

[ExGingi]

It was a joking reference the timing of your post.

I was fully aware of that, but couldn't resist an opportunity for a jab... (after all they're in vogue now, aren't they?)

[Kobe Bryant]

DeltaCron

https://www.foxnews.com/health/omicron-delta-new-deltacron-strain-cyprus-professor.amp

[PlatinumGuy]

DeltaCron

https://www.foxnews.com/health/omicron-delta-new-deltacron-strain-cyprus-professor.amp

Contaminated test.

[yelped]

Contaminated test.

Details?

[AsherO]

Contaminated test.

25x over? Basically a bad batch of the same PCR assay (or thermal cycler?)?

[Euclid]

Contaminated test.

Phrases from February 2020

[PlatinumGuy]

Details?

When processing several COVID samples at the same time, procedural failures can occur, and contaminations between samples with different variants occur. As @wanderer_jasnah says, it is PCR recombination due to contamination. Usually computational analysis can detect these flaws.

— Chise πŸ§¬πŸ§«πŸ¦ πŸ”¬πŸ’‰ (@sailorrooscout) January 8, 2022

[AsherO]

When processing several COVID samples at the same time, procedural failures can occur, and contaminations between samples with different variants occur. As @wanderer_jasnah says, it is PCR recombination due to contamination. Usually computational analysis can detect these flaws.

— Chise πŸ§¬πŸ§«πŸ¦ πŸ”¬πŸ’‰ (@sailorrooscout) January 8, 2022

I believe it’s possible, but understanding this is way above my pay grade.